Bloomberg Wins Superuser Award in Recognition of Outstanding Use, Support of Open Infrastructure

By Georgio Salas.
Updated Jun 13, 2023

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (PRWEB) June 13, 2023 - OPENINFRA SUMMIT The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) announced today that Bloomberg is the winner of the Superuser Award, which recognizes organizations that have used open infrastructure to improve their business while contributing back to the OpenInfra community. Representatives of the Bloomberg compute engineering team received the 2023 Superuser Award during keynotes at the OpenInfra Summit, the annual international gathering of the people building and running open source infrastructure using Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes and 30+ other technologies.

Bloomberg, a global finance, media and technology company, has been an active contributor to and user of OpenStack, an open source project hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, since 2013. Bloombergs global compute and storage investment consists of over 400,000 OpenStack cores, several petabytes of RAM and hundreds of petabytes of replicated Ceph block and object storage. Bloomberg also runs hundreds of bare-metal and virtual Kubernetes clusters. Bloomberg credits open source cloud technologies for enabling the company to improve the power efficiency of its data centers and to help reduce its carbon footprint. Recently, Bloomberg began expanding its open infrastructure footprint into the networking arena with SONiC, which it plans to leverage to manage its multi-terabit class network fabric.

In its nomination application, the Bloomberg engineering team reported, We have expanded our private cloud infrastructure and BGP-based [Border Gateway Protocol-based] IP networking fabric globally. These technologies are now in use by more than 8,000 developers on multiple continents. We also started evaluating different tiers of file and block storage to fill high-performance infrastructure needs. Thanks to OpenStacks vendor-neutral design, we can rapidly incorporate these emerging technologies into our infrastructure with ease.

Bloomberg engineers contribute patches upstream to OpenInfra projects, Project Calico, the Linux kernel and more. Bloomberg is heavily involved in the OpenInfra community and user base, leading the OpenStack Ops Meetup team, hosting mid-cycle meetups and attending OpenInfra events. In addition, Bloomberg has played a role in advancing many other open source technologies and has published two net-new open source tools: Memray and PyStack.

In addition to providing financial support to the OpenInfra Foundation, Bloomberg launched this year a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Contributor Fund. Apache Arrow, Curl and Celery were chosen by Bloomberg employees and open source contributors as the inaugural recipients of the grants.

Bloomberg is a great example of a Superuser: They were one of the first organizations sharing their OpenStack use case in 2013, they have contributed back to the community through event sponsorship and OpenInfra Foundation Gold Membership, and they have engaged team members who actively collaborate within the global OpenInfra community, said Allison Price, VP of marketing and community at the OpenInfra Foundation. I am excited to welcome Bloomberg into the esteemed group of Superuser Awards recipients, which now includes more than 15 global organizations innovating with open infrastructure.

*Read more about the 2023 Superuser Awards nominees* Launched at the OpenStack Summit Paris in 2014, the Superuser Awards recognize open infrastructure users who are making a difference in the OpenInfra community and demonstrating how open infrastructure software is providing strategic value in their organization. The community submits nominees to Superuser, and the Superuser Editorial Advisory Board determines the winners. Bloomberg joins CERN, AT&T, China Mobile, VEXXHOST, Ant Group, OVH and more.

In addition to Bloomberg, 2023 nominees included: Acme Gating China Telecom - eSurfing Cloud Encora Hubei Jointour Technology Co., Ltd. KeepSec Technologies OpenMetal TPG Telecom Workday

*About the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation)* The OpenInfra Foundation builds communities who write open source infrastructure software that runs in production. With the support of over 110,000 individuals in 187 countries, the OpenInfra Foundation hosts open source projects and communities of practice, including infrastructure for AI, container native apps, edge computing and data center clouds. Join the OpenInfra movement: http://www.openinfra.dev

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